Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work. This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?). Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc. For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way. I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place. Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories. The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
I'm from Manchester and in school this was actually presented as a documentary about what life was really like in Newcastle. We were all grateful for what we had.
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD I think that horrid creature, wordy? He used to do a song about letters using a magic light up pen and I remember one about "Top to Bottom, down and up." I hate it so much. I'm convinced stupidity is contagious and that show did a lot to dumb down 80's England.
Funny that I loved this show as a child but I wasn’t aware like you weren’t aware of who was presenting it to all of our primary schools. Funnily enough I should be the most grumpy guy in the whole world but for some reason I’m summer on this most geo-engineered day 😊
I remember watching this whole thing in Primary School, enjoyed it although ended up getting a bit tired of it after a few hours. I changed school halfway through, and imagine my joy when the first English lesson I had at the new school was... starting Geordie Racer again 😭
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
I think I had successfully repressed all memories of having to watch this at school, until now. It explains how I know what Stottie is despite never having been to Newcastle. The only thing this re-cap is missing to create the experience of watching this at school, is there is not a middle aged women treating using a video recorder like she is taking part in a NASA science mission, and she has been give the tricky bit to do.
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there! Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
@ I think that nostalgia can act like a big comfortable blanket and wrap you up and give you peace and comfort. I completely agree, I’d sit and watch Geordie Racer or the Dragon’s Eye and just smile now. I choose to take comfort in it! It’s like the Spectrum games remind me of my oldest and dearest friend. He had a Spectrum and I had a C64. The afternoons spent, loading games, being silly and just enjoying life were magnificent.
@@Razaprime cool - I was a c64 man myself. I still like watching Dr who from that time, as you say the nostalgia gives me a comfort. Like watching something like the littlest hobo and I remember watching it at grans, these memories locked up somewhere in our heads
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one. I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
Is this one of those things that they'd show the class one time every week except we didn't have enough time to watch the entire thing before we're supposed to learn about the next thing, so my child mind was eternally irritated and left wondering how the story ends for the rest of the entire school year?
YES. This. The most exiting part of the whole thing was getting picked to go and fetch the one-telly-on-wheels-that-the-school-owned and pissing about with it in the corridor on the way back to class
"After the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Peter Rowell faced a disciplinary hearing after saying "she had huge knockers" after footage of the princess was shown and not realising the microphone was switched on."
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
@@javelinXH992 yeah before he went to Oxford and put on a posh accent. He was always looking for that pigeon though and she's a tear when one flew past, which was quite often
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend. I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
Before they power-washed all the buildings… It’s also filmed in the sweetspot time capsule where Byker Wall still looks nice and the Quayside looks like shite.
Ah... memories. Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this. It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
Some little known facts about Newcastle: 1. Nobody ever says ‘what shall we have for dinner?’ as the answer is always ‘stotties’. 2. The fancy restaurants don’t have menus as they only serve stotties. 3. There are no fancy restaurants. It’s Newcastle.
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children. Scared the life out of me and my classmates
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
Please do Dark Towers! I would love to hear your thoughts on Tracy the 31 year old teenager, Miss Hawk and her sexual attraction to books, and Christopher Biggins trying to insert the word "fairy" into every scene without anyone noticing.
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone. The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
0:16 "inexplicably known as Spuggie" I remember being about 7 and the book that accompanied the series at school told us that Spuggie meant Sparrow. Totally explicked
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!! (and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
@@RoseTintedSpectrum No problem mate. I somehow managed to separate my main comment from the super thanks, but there we go. Great video as always. It's the least I could do for such a good video that made me laugh enough for my Wife to tell me to shut up. :)
I would have been 7 when this came out...and it seems to have completely passed me by! This is the first time I have heard of it. I love your narration of it and the humour - a great evening's entertainment! BBC computers...now I do remember them and the awful educational games teachers sometimes let you play in class. P.S. amongst all the 80s drabness and boffy fashion the series was slightly saved by spuggy's sister being a bit of alright!
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
Lewis from Morse. I loved look and read. My favourite thing to watch skiving off school. It's such a shame that you never hear of Derek Griffiths anymore. This is my childhood right there.
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
@RoseTintedSpectrum Seems Gorwen's power to incessantly shout peoples names over and over again has the power to transcend time, space and even dimensions!
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
I literally had to nip downstairs and make a cheese scottie. How have you made me binge watch this on a Friday Night? I think it says more about me than you. Anyway well done mate 😂
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂 Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂 Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
Please do a Sammy's Super T-Shirt episode.
Someone needs sacking for that error.
@TKMRacer28 it's me. It's always me.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work.
This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?).
Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc.
For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way.
I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place.
Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
The memories of a bloomin freezing tv room at school, a massive box of a TV on a stand with a noisy VCR and a teacher who had no idea how to work it.
Also the TV speakers would go all funny if it went too loud
100% the same memory unlocked mate thanks 😂😂
lol yeah, and those minute-long countdowns before school tv programmes, talk about hyping it up :D
And the teacher would for ever stop the tape to ask bloody stupid questions
@@TheRealBigDan why did we have to sit on the floor too?
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories.
The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
I'm from Manchester and in school this was actually presented as a documentary about what life was really like in Newcastle. We were all grateful for what we had.
Teaching kids about magic e's when the 90s where just around the corner
Yep great preparation
Also the shamen helped with Ebeneezer good
don't forget billy whiz either, the dandy had a bit to answer for, and the magic mushrooms in magic roundabout
Magic magic eeeeeeeeeeee 🪄 😵💫
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD e’s are good
0:35 You just know it's fiction, because those biscuit tins contain nothing but sewing equipment.
😂😂😂
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
Lol
@@lostintranslation1957Thatcher probably stole them
‘Northern poverty’?! He’s got a bloody breakfast bar!!
Lol
We had a magic E wizard at school. He used to hang round the back of the bike sheds with the smokers, in prison now.
He seemed cool. I didn't question why a 35 yr-old was behind the bike sheds.
That's hardcore for primary school
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
I loved it but only ever saw it at school so it was better than lessons
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD I think that horrid creature, wordy? He used to do a song about letters using a magic light up pen and I remember one about "Top to Bottom, down and up."
I hate it so much. I'm convinced stupidity is contagious and that show did a lot to dumb down 80's England.
@@fremenondesand3896 lol yeah magic pencil I think it was called - had a big light bulb in the end :)
Funny that I loved this show as a child but I wasn’t aware like you weren’t aware of who was presenting it to all of our primary schools. Funnily enough I should be the most grumpy guy in the whole world but for some reason I’m summer on this most geo-engineered day 😊
Honestly as a school kids aged 6 or 7 getting a tv show set in your home city of Newcastle was mind blowing
ooh Biker.
I bet!!!
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer He canna see jeff
Woyay! 🤑
The Hadaway What is Love? cracks me up.
I remember watching this whole thing in Primary School, enjoyed it although ended up getting a bit tired of it after a few hours. I changed school halfway through, and imagine my joy when the first English lesson I had at the new school was... starting Geordie Racer again 😭
Lol still better than doing pages of sums though eh
We've gone from a noncey dragon to an actual nonce in just one children's series.
Such is life
Get used to it…it’s Gordon D Gopher and Phillip Schofield 🤩 in the broom cupboard of our childhoods 🤢
Got thrown out of a lesson for singing "shit becomes shite with me, magic magic e"
Through the dragons eye was more traumatising, though.
Fair play mate :)
Why didn't I think of that?
Haha used to sing this exact same thing. Classic!
👍🏾
For forty years nobody believed I learned about "magic e" at school 😭 Thank you for providing the evidence at long last.
I'm so glad you got your channel back. Sorry you had to put up with that undue stress, and thanks for this video!
What happened with the channel? Disappeared.
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
I remember wordy because he reminded me of my auties henry hoover but i cant remember a thing about the actual drama bits.
This unlocked some deeply buried childhood memories of extreme boredom.
Childhood trauma you mean.
The false hope that the TV trolley came out and you didn't have to sit through assembly or maths, and then this comes on.
I even got bored watching this video!
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
True - I got to the start of episode 8 and had to stop too much Geordie R*pist on Magic e for me
In Manchester in the 90’s we also had a ‘Magic E Wizard’ but I think he was up to other things.
Probably looked the same though :)
OH MY F'ING G i was not expecting this! god bless you and everyone who sails in you.
"Haddaway..." Top notch as usual!
Baby don't hurt me
That is such a good gag, it's criminal how quickly it passes! 😂
You my friend are a genius and have just cured something that may have lay dormant in a forty three year old man. I love you. Said it. Live it.
As a 43 year old man I agree
1981 for the win.
And I love you both 🫶🏾
Mate through the Dragons eye now Geordie racer. I am forever in your debt. Pure class
@dominicpayne4393 wait... there's a dragons eye?!
Legendary shows
We even watched this in primary school in Dublin when it aired on BBC, despite us not being UK license payers. 😂
I apologise on behalf of my nation for the intensive suffering we have put you through… and the colonialism.
You and Stuart Millard have got my nostalgia fix sorted lol I cant wait for "Jossies Giants" 8D
The message system...."AMANDA!!!!" I'm dying😂
“Stop juicing that pigeon you maniac”had me rolling
16:40 Damn. That "Magic E" is a banger. If only I knew UK Children's daytime TV had those kinds of drops...
The magic E song for Christmas number 1.
Needs a re-release for sure.
I think I had successfully repressed all memories of having to watch this at school, until now. It explains how I know what Stottie is despite never having been to Newcastle. The only thing this re-cap is missing to create the experience of watching this at school, is there is not a middle aged women treating using a video recorder like she is taking part in a NASA science mission, and she has been give the tricky bit to do.
Lol. Wasn't it great to watch telly at school though
The tiny remote control on a long wire ..😂
Funny that. Looks like our age bracket is having an awakening.
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there!
Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
I miss those days
@ simpler times, weren’t they?
@@Razaprime yep - even this stuff seemed amazing lol
@ I think that nostalgia can act like a big comfortable blanket and wrap you up and give you peace and comfort. I completely agree, I’d sit and watch Geordie Racer or the Dragon’s Eye and just smile now. I choose to take comfort in it! It’s like the Spectrum games remind me of my oldest and dearest friend. He had a Spectrum and I had a C64. The afternoons spent, loading games, being silly and just enjoying life were magnificent.
@@Razaprime cool - I was a c64 man myself. I still like watching Dr who from that time, as you say the nostalgia gives me a comfort. Like watching something like the littlest hobo and I remember watching it at grans, these memories locked up somewhere in our heads
Fun fact: that wizard went on to become Ebeneezer Goode.
Chooooon. I had it on cassette 100% dance
Naughty naughty. Very naughty.
I absolutely love all your videos the games master stuff had me rolling around on the floor keep up the good work
Like "Threads" with more suffering.
If Threads took place in Newcastle the place would be a lot happier. 😂
80's Newcastle looks exactly the same as 80's Sheffield.
BBC filmstock and 480p probably doesn't help
@@jubeaumont6305 "Geordie Racer 2, Judgment Day".
I'm of the age but from rural Dorset so "Geordie Racer" was a bit too depressing for us as kids.
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one.
I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
Nah Geordie racer was great! This edit doesn't do it justice:)
Mate, your content is bloody brilliant and your commentary and editing are comic genius.
Thank you for the laughs. Keep up the good work.
17:00 these drum & bass remixes are everything - especially a song about Magic Es.
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
Top fact!
You don’t go to the byker wall on your own either 😮
@@TheFettz especially on a night time.
That's literally the opposite of "random". Somebody didn't listen to Wordie... 😂
Cool fact
Is this one of those things that they'd show the class one time every week except we didn't have enough time to watch the entire thing before we're supposed to learn about the next thing, so my child mind was eternally irritated and left wondering how the story ends for the rest of the entire school year?
YES. This. The most exiting part of the whole thing was getting picked to go and fetch the one-telly-on-wheels-that-the-school-owned and pissing about with it in the corridor on the way back to class
Yep same. Had to answer questions on bits we hadn't seen
@@turnitonagain2lol. Reminds me of my time doing the ohp acetates in assembly
You betcha
It makes you wonder what it's all abeet
I loved this at school - the theme tune was absolutely banging. Byker grove had a spuggy too
The magic e song is still in my head all these years later.
Wordy looks like a South Park character who slept on scrabble.
Lol
"After the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Peter Rowell faced a disciplinary hearing after saying "she had huge knockers" after footage of the princess was shown and not realising the microphone was switched on."
@@gamesmasteruploader4863 yeah, I read that one. I wasn't shocked, haha
Used to watch this at school. This and Badger Girl as well as that floating pencil thing.
Great to see you back mate after the youtube purge. Think you should celebrate by having a massive stottie man
I second this
Stotties!
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Yeah! He was young Nev. I’m rewatching that at the moment so Nev appearing suddenly was great.
He was in inspecter morse as well
Worst Auf Wiedersehen Pet ever
Nah that was the one in the native American reservation
Surely this is an Inspector Morse spin off? Lewis hasn’t got a clue about the mystery van driver without Morse to help him.
@@javelinXH992 yeah before he went to Oxford and put on a posh accent. He was always looking for that pigeon though and she's a tear when one flew past, which was quite often
The most believable part of the story is a Vietnamese geordie.
Disagree, pet. Makes the show
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend.
I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
As someone who lives in Newcastle, if nothing else the old footage of the city is fascinating to see.
Are people still called spuggy?
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD not to their face
@@gamesmasteruploader4863 😂
Before they power-washed all the buildings… It’s also filmed in the sweetspot time capsule where Byker Wall still looks nice and the Quayside looks like shite.
How much crossover with auf weidersein pet is there? Obviously Nevs there but the wife looks familiar and I spotted the hill where Oz and Rod walk by
Ah... memories.
Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this.
It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
Some little known facts about Newcastle:
1. Nobody ever says ‘what shall we have for dinner?’ as the answer is always ‘stotties’.
2. The fancy restaurants don’t have menus as they only serve stotties.
3. There are no fancy restaurants. It’s Newcastle.
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation
They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
🫡🫵🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Ah, RUclips suggested something worth watching as last, maybe my friday night is saved after all...
Same, mate. 👍
"Mickey, you broadcast..."
"Yes?"
"So you're a..."
LOL, RTS is back & on form!
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children.
Scared the life out of me and my classmates
Yep they were awesome horror films
I remember watching this at school. No wonder I grew up to be a mentalist.
Wordy seriously gives me the creeps. It also makes an appearance in Threads, the fucker can literally survive the apocalypse. 😱
The Giant Hall is Seaton Delaval Hall and it was also in Supergran! It was the bad guys house in that
"There are many dangers... but we'll risk the pigeons anyway as it's a laugh."
the rinsing is brilliant, not laughed so much in ages!
Also a Spuggy is a common sparrow, so hes a common garden geordie in every way
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
Please do Dark Towers! I would love to hear your thoughts on Tracy the 31 year old teenager, Miss Hawk and her sexual attraction to books, and Christopher Biggins trying to insert the word "fairy" into every scene without anyone noticing.
It's on the list! Badger Girl will most likely be next, then I suspect Dark Towers will be the one after that.
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
The Geordie racer theme tune is still stuck in my head
That magic E song was banging 🎶
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone.
The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
Your confusion may stem from there being a girl in Byker Grove called Spuggy.
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
Good old big tv on wheels
I can’t explain how much your videos entertain me and the number of times I genuinely laugh out loud. Thank you for the hard graft.
That Magic E song is EXACTLY how i remember it.
0:16 "inexplicably known as Spuggie" I remember being about 7 and the book that accompanied the series at school told us that Spuggie meant Sparrow. Totally explicked
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!!
(and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
Requesting (Badger Girl) full season on YT
It's on the list along with Dark Tower
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Fuvkin boss tho.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
Far fewer unintended double entendres in Badger Girl.
+1 vote for badger girl!
That's actually Kevin Whatleys real life wife playing his wife in the show.
And his real pigeon
I didn't think the Magic E song could get any better... I was so very wrong.
Did you ever cover the tie-in games for these shows? I remember playing them in school 🫠
Not yet, might be worth doing a video of them all when I finish this lot off
Friday nights viewing sorted! Thanks mate. theses videos and the channel are awesome,keep up the good work brother 👏🏼👍🏼
Thanks
Thank you bud, much appreciated
@@RoseTintedSpectrum No problem mate. I somehow managed to separate my main comment from the super thanks, but there we go. Great video as always. It's the least I could do for such a good video that made me laugh enough for my Wife to tell me to shut up. :)
4:26 "I followed my MAP I simply went ****" - cut to the nonce. Nicely done
How the fuck have I not seen this channel until now, this is comedy gold!
I never watched this program, but I watched this entire video - your video editing and narration is fking incredible! Amazing content ❤
The actor who played the DJ Micky Stone, ‘Peter Rowell’, turned out to be a nasty piece of work
I might be late to the party/stating the bleeding obvious, but how Robert Webb is the narrator? The timbré, the delivery, the acid wit. Marvellous.
I would have been 7 when this came out...and it seems to have completely passed me by! This is the first time I have heard of it.
I love your narration of it and the humour - a great evening's entertainment! BBC computers...now I do remember them and the awful educational games teachers sometimes let you play in class.
P.S. amongst all the 80s drabness and boffy fashion the series was slightly saved by spuggy's sister being a bit of alright!
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
Lewis from Morse. I loved look and read. My favourite thing to watch skiving off school. It's such a shame that you never hear of Derek Griffiths anymore. This is my childhood right there.
Love this!!! Thank you! Dark Towers next?? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Made my friday, this. Thanks! Such a great channel. Do you remember Badger Girl?
@@craigchampagne7797 I do not, but it's on my list!
I remember it
oh my god your channel is back I haven't been so scared in my entire life
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
Spuggy is another word for a bird not a stottie🙃
AMANDAAAAA!
@@Arkhan_The_Black Amaaaaaandaaaaaaa
@RoseTintedSpectrum Seems Gorwen's power to incessantly shout peoples names over and over again has the power to transcend time, space and even dimensions!
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
I don't know what a moss piglet is but I'm going to use it in a sentence today.
Great video 😊 the editing and comedy was top notch. You must have the fortitude of a cast-iron bear to endure these shows 😅
"'Ow does pigeons find their way 'ome t' nuke-assul-loike?"
"They don't luv, we buys new ones and lies t'ya."
Brilliant vid mate, laughed so much. Thank you :)
8:58 killed me for some reason, nearly choked on my bastard tea, thanks for that.
I think I remember watching this in school. Couldn't understand a word of it then, can't understand a word of it now!
boy they really went crazy on the midi
I literally had to nip downstairs and make a cheese scottie. How have you made me binge watch this on a Friday Night? I think it says more about me than you. Anyway well done mate 😂
@@gavinward1348 special horses
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂
Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂
Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
Lol brilliant I was same in west brom